Holly Haebig, Jahmes Finlayson, Suzanne Rosenblatt and Harvey Taylor will be performing Thursday, March 17, 5-9pm at The 9th Annual St. Patrick/St. Brigid, All City Gathering of Activists, Artists and Culture Creators at Club Timbuktu, 520 E. Center St.
$5 Donation requested (volunteer for 30-60 min. in lieu of $donation)
At 9pm, Mali Blues will join us and continue the celebration with music and dance!
And Mali Blues is a great band for dancing!!!!

In our artwork we look at ourselves, laugh at ourselves, consciously or unconsciously paint ourselves. Or we gaze into others’ eyes and try to turn our paint into their emotions. We may lose the human figure in its surroundings, or let it overpower the space. Or perhaps we abstract it so much no one else knows it’s human. There are as many ways to look at humanity as there are people looking. And the latest show at the Rosenblatt Gallery features four very different artists, Davey Noble, Eriks Johnson, Virgi Driscoll, and Nancy Lamers, painting their fellow earthlings.

LAND SHAPES LANDSCAPES Dec 10, 2010 to Jan 14, 2011
Sky, clouds, land, sea, trees and smaller plants, frogs, squirrels, ants, always there, yet we each notice, and admire, different aspects of our surroundings. LAND SHAPES LANDSCAPES will look at the way four Milwaukee artists explore the lay of the land.

Each motion of the dancer flowed flawlessly into the next, like waves advancing or grasses in wind, and I sat entranced. Then it was over. The applause was enthusiastic, but not enthusiastic enough for the friend seated next to me. “What’s the matter with Milwaukee? In New York a performance like that would have brought down the house!” he exclaimed.

That was summer, 2008, at UWM. The dancer was Leonard Cruz, and when I googled him later that night, I found no more Milwaukee performances scheduled.

Now he’s back, and we’re friends. A couple of weeks ago he called me late one evening and said, “I’m performing on December 4th and 5th.”

Few professors get to see, years later, how their students turned out. Adolph is fortunate: in a few days two different exhibitions of work by his former students will be up at the same time. One has already opened, at UWM’s Inova Arts Center Gallery: Adolph and three of his students.

Trees and Snow

Hundreds of other students, 33 years worth, aren’t in the UWM show, and I wondered what they’re doing. Many keep in touch with Adolph, including me (I married him). So about a month ago I had an idea for a show in Rosenblatt Gallery: ROSENBLATT’S FORMER STUDENTS, with two artworks by each artist. For the next several days I asked the former students we happened to hear from or run into if they’d like to participate, and soon we had about twenty artists. This second show will open on Gallery Night, October 15, and will overlap for a while with the UWM show, which closes November 6.